Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Quoth the Hoppy : > Philip, you have just made me quite ill. Never post any message > again that includes the words Summicron, vise, vicegrips and a > file. Yes, I do understand your circumstance ;-) So I'm guessing you wouldn't want to hear about running the 1976 Watkins Glen Vintage Grand Prix in a an Allard J2-X with a firewall- mounted fuel pump bracket fabbed on the spot from a cardboard box and two rolls of corvette tape, using a handful of nylon cable ties for hose clamps?? (We finished under our own power, which was more than the factory-maintained Ferraris or birdcage did...) (Which was not quite so insane as replacing the head gasket on Ed Shelton's MGB in his driveway at two in the morning in a pouring North Texas Thunderboomer. It wasn't until the next morning that we found out that a funnel cloud had gone apparently RIGHT overhead and touched down about two miles away. Oops. We won the rally, though.) If you can't fix the gear with a Gerbertool, a tin can lid, and a chunk of wire, you're not ready to go into the field. -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request